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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FREEDOM 3
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809, Anglo-American political theorist, writer)
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Pericles (BC 495-429, Athenian statesman)
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
Persius (34-62, Satirical poet)
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
Albert Pike (1809-1891, American lawyer, Masonic author, historian)
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Adam Clayton Powell (1908-, African-American politician)
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
How can the person who is eating dates prohibit the eating of dates? It's better to be a free dog than a caged lion.
Arabian Proverb (Sayings of Arabian origin)
It's better to be a free dog than a caged lion.
Arabian Proverb (Sayings of Arabian origin)
Even if the nightingale is in a gold cage, she still dreams of returning to the forest.
Armenian Proverb
The saving man becomes the free man.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
My mind to me is a kingdom.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
He who has lost his freedom has nothing else to lose.
German Proverb (Sayings of German origin)
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.
Dan Quayle (1947-, American politician, vice-president)
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard (1864-1910, French author, dramatist)
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
Mary Caroline Richards
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community...
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Salman Rushdie (1948-, Indian-born British author)
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962, British novelist, poet)
There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.
The Siri Singh Sahib
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944, French aviator, writer)
It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.
Sang Kyu Shin (Chinese activist)
It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.
Sang Kyu Shin (Chinese activist)
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
Freedom exists only with power.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
Where there is much freedom there is much error.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
Hazel Scott (1920-1981, American entertainer)
Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
Hazel Scott (1920-1981, American entertainer)
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
He who is brave is free.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid (1912-1992, American broadcast journalist)
They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.
Abbe Sieyes
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Angelus Silesius
We must believe in free will. We have no choice.
Sri Swami Sivananda (1887-1963, Indian physician, sage)
When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-, Russian novelist)
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677, Dutch philosopher and theologian)
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; He that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
A hungry man is not a free man.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
I. F. Stone (1907-1989, American author)
Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002, American businessman, author, founder of Combined Insurance Companies)
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
Terence (Roman writer of comedies)
You have been given freedom... to love and serve each other.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Galatians 5:13)
You have been given freedom... to love and serve each other.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Galatians 5:13)
Freedom is knowing who you really are.
Linda Thomson
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859, French social philosopher)
This is America. You can do anything here.
Robert E. Turner (1938-, American cable-TV pioneer)
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
Paul Twitchell
A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.
Author Unknown
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.
Author Unknown
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Author Unknown
It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
Author Unknown
It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But it should be possible to guarantee world freedom.
Author Unknown
Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.
Author Unknown
The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.
Author Unknown
The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.
Author Unknown
True freedom has always moved forward in the hearts and upon the shoulders of willing volunteers.
Author Unknown
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker (1944-, American author, critic)
Freedom cannot be given; it must be purchased.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915, American black leader and educator)
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington (1732-1799, American President (1st))
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington (1732-1799, American President (1st))
Every dogma must have its day.
Carolyn Wells (1870-1942, American author)
Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
Robert Wilson (1941-, American theater director, designer)
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850, British poet)
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Boris Yeltsin (1931-, Russian president)
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-, Russian poet)
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